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Progress Report on Performance of IANA
FunctionsMay  July 2000

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) submits
this report under Order No. 40SBNT067020 to document performance progress
during the period May-July 2000 in performing the function of the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority (the IANA).

General

During this period, the IANA continued to make substantial progress
in reducing its backlog in protocol parameter functions.

This was accomplished by commencement of a program of workflow
improvements. (That program continued after the period covered by this
report.) The program began with establishment of separate special
function e-mail accounts and augmentation of application templates and
associated scripts.

The IANA also continued to refine, with respect to protocol
parameter assignments under IETF standards, the role of IETF experts.
Continuing discussions were held with IAB/IESG on development of more
formal arrangements for expert consultation on the assignment of
protocol parameters, with the objective of improving support to
developers needing such assignments.

The IANA implemented an automated system to assist in management of
ccTLD delegation information in May-June 2000. Among other
capabilities, this new system facilitated an improved interface for
dissemination of ccTLD contact information. Beginning in June 2000, the
IANA began maintaining a web page for each ccTLD listing the delegation
information. This provided a much more convenient interface than the
Microsoft Excel format previously used.

On 30
June 2000, ICANN submitted a status report to the Department of Commerce
under the Joint Project Agreement (JPA)/MOU referred to in Section 12.5
(Performance Exclusions) of the contract under which this report is
submitted (i.e. the IANA functions contract).
http://www.icann.org/general/statusreport-30jun00.htm One step
recommended by the 30 June 2000 status report is particularly pertinent
to the procedures under which the root-management tasks are performed
under the IANA functions contract: As ICANN reaches appropriate and
stable agreements concerning ccTLDs with their managers, DOC and ICANN
should agree on simplified procedures that enable ICANN to assure those
ccTLD managers that the authoritative root will point to the ccTLD
nameservers they designate for so long as the agreements remain in
effect. Implementation of that recommendation is outside the scope of
the IANA functions contract. See Sections 12.3 and 12.5 of that
contract.

See http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm for full list of
ccTLD Root Zone Whois Information

3) Allocation of IP address blocks:

See statistical chart below under Addresses

4) Other services:

No significant activities

Statistical Information:

Protocols

Year 2000

May

June

July

User Ports

34

34

35

Sys Ports

4

0

3

Prot #s

1

0

0

MIME

8

3

3

MIBs

0

0

0

Pr Ent #s

206

187

233

Other

8

8

2

Addresses

Year 2000

May

June

July

Multicast

4

2

6

Cable

6 blk

1 blk

2 blk

AS #s

0

1 blk

0

RIR Alloc

0

1/8

2/8

Root Management

During the three-month period covered by this report, the IANA
received and sent 434 e-mail messages relating to 79 different ccTLDs.
During this period, the IANA submitted requests for 24 changes (18 of
which involved 18 different ccTLDs) to root-zone information and
root-zone-contact information, 22 of which required Commerce Department
approval. A monthly breakdown follows: